TSU will discuss the role of the HR-departments at universities

10 November 2016

On November 10, TSU will start the second international conference HR-TREND-2016: Human Dimension of University http://hr-trend.tsu.ru/en/. This year's participants will discuss how to management models of universities and modern business are changing and what support HR-departments can provide administration and staff.

- Now the reinterpretation the very essence of the concept “university” occurs in universities, - said Tatyana Klimova, Head of the Staff Development Department. - We understand university as one of the most important places of concentration and generation of human resources. At the conference HR-TREND-2016, we want to raise questions about the place of HR-departments in the transformation processes of universities, types of interactions: university - a man , and about the influence of the university model on the formation of HR-policy. 

Reports on the role of the administration of the university, the features of the corporate culture, the image of the university in social networks, professional burnout and its prevention, and others will be presented at the conference.

Participants will also be able to visit open public lectures where experts such as Takhir Bazarov, scientific director at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Higher School of Economics, Professor Tatiana Fumasoli, University of Oslo, and others will tell about the person in the organization in crisis conditions, relationship between scientists and the university administration, the post-Soviet economy of Russia, and others. Admission is free for everyone, preliminary registration is required.

In addition, on November 10 at 18.30 the big conference hall of the Research Library will host a presentation of the Russian-language edition of the book Organizational Anatomy of Oleg Konovalov, who has over 25 years of experience in managing companies in the UK and Russia, and a doctorate from Durham University Business School (UK). The book presents a new management concept, which explains the internal and external organizational processes and functions from a biological point of view, it allows you to increase productivity and to define organizational diseases and pathologies. The work received feedback from Di Magazine (Financial Times), UK Trade & Investment, and other experts.